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Forget Feel-Good Resolutions! Just Do These 3 Retirement Tasks in 2015 | Time by Walter Updegrave

Published: January 22 2015

Resolutions are just a ritual. If you really want to reach your retirement goals, these three steps will help you get there.

Fidelity Investments reports that the number of people making New Year’s financial resolutions is down 28% from last year. Excuse me if I don’t see this as cause for alarm. In fact, I think we should ditch the whole resolution thing and just focus on achieving a few key retirement-planning goals.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say New Year’s resolutions are a waste of time. Indeed, Fidelity’s sixth annual New Year Financial Resolutions Study suggests that people who make them might be better off than those who don’t.